Comment on Could plants/trees be an evil alien species that came to earth and made us dependent on them ?

• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Honestly, it checks out.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    from an evolutionary biology standpoint… We’re basically on the order (and quite possibly worse than) of the giant meteor that killed off the dinos. Like, if you tally up the number of extinctions caused by humans, the Anthropocene Era is a mass extinction event.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But we’re also possibly an asteroid that might feel bad and undo it. The asteroid never bothered to un crash into earth.

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      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        how do you un-extinct a species?

        Even the people bringing the “woolly mamoth” back are incorporating elephant DNA because the genetic samples simply don’t exist in any sense of integrity. Same for the people “bringing back” the dodo.

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• DrRatso@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I highly suggest reading the Hitchikers guide to the galaxy. A theme along these lines comes up, but less evil and more incompetent.

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